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Our Katahdin is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization working to promote community and economic development in the Katahdin region. The core of Our Katahdin is a website for people who love the Katahdin region and believe in its future. Our Katahdin is a connector -- pulling together ideas, people and money to move our community forward.

To date, Our Katahdin has been crowdsourcing donations. Many of you have donated to our community projects. This is awesome! Now, we are getting ready to provide you with an opportunity to invest in the local region as well.

Why are we doing this? We believe the Katahdin region is ready for community and economic development. Community development requires donations. Lots of them. Economic development requires investment.

We don’t want our future to be owned solely by other people. We want each of us, the people of the Katahdin region, to be able to own part of our future. Welcome to the vision of “Our Katahdin Capital”!

Community Projects

The Winterfest 2016 project is a collaboration of the Fin and Feather Club of Maine,
the Katahdin Area Chamber of Commerce and the Northern Timber Cruisers Snowmobile Club in an effort to raise funding
for television commercial production and air time for the area's annual Winterfest!

The Spruce-Up Committee is a group of local volunteers whose purpose is to identify small projects that
will improve the general appearance of the tri-town area. If we want businesses and individuals to relocate
to the Katahdin region, let's make our towns as attractive and well-kept as possible.

Recent News

Millinocket, Maine. January 12, 2017 – Our Katahdin, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in the Katahdin region, has acquired the former Great Northern Paper assets in Millinocket, including all property, designations, and liabilities held by GNP West, GNP Holdings II, and the New England Center for Business Development. Transfer of stewardship of the properties was finalized on January 11, 2017.

We are excited and humbled to receive the Maine Development Foundation's "Champion of Economic Development" award for 2016. Thank you to all of the donors and volunteers who are helping move the region forward!

Hello ATV Users; I am sending you this letter to ask for your support in our new trail effort. It was just 5 years ago that the NTC was able to get open KRMUT the first Multi-Use ATV trail with the trail starting at the NTC clubhouse and continues for 16 miles to West Sebeois and points further west. It took over 5 years of work to complete this trail read more...

Our Katahdin is proud to announce our partnership with a new collaborative in the Maine entrepreneurship community, Maine Accelerates Growth.

The Maine Accelerates Growth initiative "accelerates the growth of companies, communities, and talent by funding, creating, and leveraging high impact entrepreneurship and innovation programs and events through a collaborative and complementary network of organizations and individuals propelling prosperity across Maine."

Read more about MxG, its Statewide Coordinator, Jess Knox, and its partners:

We believe in the future of the Katahdin region. It won't happen overnight, but as we continue to find new ways to work together, it will happen. Read more about our thoughts for the future of the region, and share your own views and ideas with us:

Our Katahdin was named the Editors’ Choice for Best “By-the-Bootstraps Community Reinvention” in Down East magazine's annual poll of reader and editor favorites, featured in the July 2015 issue. The editors went through a rigorous selection process and Our Katahdin was chosen as top in its category.

The annual “Best of Maine” readers’ awards provideDown East readers and editors the opportunity to recognize their favorite Maine people, places and things around the state.